Wild animals can serve as hosts, amplifiers or reservoirs for various zoonotic diseases. Most
species of deer in highly fragmented agricultural landscapes, search out maximum cover …

Hirudo medicinalis, the medicinal leech, is applied postoperatively in modern medicine.
Infections by Aeromonas occur in up to 20% of patients unless a preemptive antibiotic …

Strictly blood-feeding leeches and their limited microbiota provide natural and powerful
model systems to examine symbiosis. Blood is devoid of essential nutrients and it is thought …

Diseases of the gastrointestinal tract due to changes in the bacterial flora have been
described with increasing incidence in the European brown hare. Despite extensive …

Although medicinal leeches are used for many years in Azerbaijan for therapeutic purposes,
relatively little is still known about their distribution, economic Importance, and general …

The medicinal leech has established a long-term mutualistic association with Aeromonas
veronii, a versatile bacterium which can also display free-living waterborne and fish-or …

Occurrence and breeding of Hirudo medicinalis were recorded in birds' nests in the fishing
ponds and water bodies used extensively by anglers in south-eastern Poland, in 4 of 11 …

Medicinal leeches (Hirudo spp.) are among the best-studied invertebrates in many aspects
of their biology. Yet, relatively little is known about their biogeography, ecology and …

Hitherto, virtually nothing is known about the microbial communities related to the bird
species in the family Corvidae. To fill this gap, the present study was conducted to provide a …

Blood-feeding leeches of the genus Placobdella have acquired intracellular
alphaproteobacterial endosymbionts of the genus Reichenowia that potentially aid in the …